10 must-read nonfiction books like Feminism by Lena Gemzöe

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Feminism

By: Lena Gemzöe

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Vad är egentligen feminism? Feminism är den första boken på svenska som tar ett tydligt helhetsgrep…

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Cover of We Should All Be Feminists by None, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1. We Should All Be Feminists

By: None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.40

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I am just as human as the man."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally"

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

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2. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

By: Douglas Adams

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  soon to be a Hulu o… read more

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"Fuck ’em,"

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

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3. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

By: Douglas Adams

4.09

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ra… read more

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"Shit!"

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"Non tout baigne, tout ce qui est susceptible de biagner, baigne."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

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4. Doctor Glas

By: Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of enduring power,  Doctor Glas  confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping in… read more

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"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar"

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

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5. Kallocain

By: Karin Boye , Gustaf Lannestock , Richard B. Vowles

3.72

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detac… read more

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"Ur tankar och känslor föds ord och handlingar. Hur skulle tankar och känslor då kunna vara den enskildes ensak? (...) Hittills har det bara inte varit möjligt att kontrollera dem - men nu är alltså m…"

-Karin Boye, Kallocain

"На стіні висіли чутливе «поліційне вухо» й «поліційне око», таке саме зірке в темряві, як і при світлі. Ніхто не заперечить того, що ці органи дуже потрібні. Якби не вони, скільки помешкань могло б с…"

-Karin Boye, Kallocain

"Попри те, цього вечора не годилося поводитися понуро й сумувати. На урочистостях, присвячених примноженню добра й достатку Держави, має панувати піднесений настрій. Мабуть, моя доля пішла б іншим шля…"

-Karin Boye, Kallocain

"Збуджена, приязно налаштована юрба озвалася на мої слова бурею оплесків і схвальних вигуків. Але я бачив, що не всі аплодували. Коли плеще в долоні тисяча, а двоє сидять склавши руки, то ці двоє пере…"

-Karin Boye, Kallocain

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6. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)

By: Douglas Adams

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea.… read more

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7. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)

By: Douglas Adams

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads-so… read more

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8. Norrtullsligan

By: Elin Wägner , Annika Lantz , Boel Hackman

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Med rapp dialog, galghumor och svarta skildras fyra unga kvinnors liv i forra sekelskiftets Stockho… read more

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  • feminism
  • read for school
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9. The God Delusion

By: Richard Dawkins

3.90

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

10. Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem

By: Harry Martinson , Leif Sjöberg , None

3.43

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The great Swedish writer Harry Martinson published his masterpiece, Aniara, during the height of th… read more

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11. El Choco: Svensken i Bolivias mest ökända fängelse

By: Markus Lutteman

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

27-arige Jonas Andersson fran Kungalv hade i ett desperat forsok att bli av med sina skulder erbjud… read more

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12. Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

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13. Four Past Midnight

By: Stephen King

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

You are strapped in an airline seat on a flight beyond hell. You are forced into a hunt for the mos… read more

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14. Ett öga rött

By: Jonas Hassen Khemiri

3.91

Format: None pages,

Halim har genomskadat allt. Han har genomskadat Integrationsplanen. Han har genomskadat fiskpanetts… read more

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15. Hej då, ha det så bra!

By: Kristina Lugn

3.60

Format: 224 pages,

Efter sin sjunde diktsamling, Hundstunden (1989), agnade Kristina Lugn sig helt at dramatiken och h… read more

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16. Complete Poems

By: Edith Södergran

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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17. The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more

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"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

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18. All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more

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"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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19. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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20. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

By: Donald D. Hoffman

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."

-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

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21. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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22. Jävla karlar

By: Andrev Walden

4.07

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more

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"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."

-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar

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23. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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  • feminism
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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24. Girig-Sverige: så blev folkhemmet ett paradis för de superrika

By: Andreas Cervenka

3.99

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Bostadspriser som rusar mest i västvärlden. Hundratusentals svenskar som kastar sig in på börsen. E… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat by Clara Törnvall

25. Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat

By: Clara Törnvall

4.02

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Varför skrev poeten Emily Dickinson dikter om havet utan att någonsin ha sett det, varför är Underl… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - o…"

-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat

"Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn'…"

-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat

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26. Hata samtiden

By: Nanna Johansson

3.32

Format: 141 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mästaren av dålig stämning, löjliga skämt och knivskarpa analyser är tillbaka! I sitt åttonde s… read more

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27. Konsten att fejka arabiska: En berättelse om autism

By: Lina Liman

4.16

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

”En del av mig dog. En annan del började äntligen, äntligen leva.” I 32 år lever Lina Liman med … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self

By: Kajsa Ekis Ekman

4.35

Format: 242 pages, ebook

Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse inherent in prostitution – and profoundly affecte… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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29. Alltid hejdå

By: Alma Thörn

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Alma längtar hem redan innan hon har farit. Hemma i Umeå finns mamma Johanna och bästa vännen, i Bo… read more

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30. Feminism

By: Lena Gemzöe

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Vad är egentligen feminism? Feminism är den första boken på svenska som tar ett tydligt helhetsgrep… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • read for school
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31. Knark: En svensk historia

By: Magnus Linton

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

När Sveriges riksdag 1978 slog fast att "knark" är främmande för svensk kultur tog ett av samtidshi… read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.40

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5.00

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Nghi Vo

3.95

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Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat

Clara Törnvall

4.02

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4.15

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